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Katrina Returns To The Gulf Coast A Story Of Unity And Hope In The Aftermath
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Book Synopsis KATRINA RETURNS TO THE GULF COAST (A story of unity and hope in the aftermath) by : Katrina Waddington
Download or read book KATRINA RETURNS TO THE GULF COAST (A story of unity and hope in the aftermath) written by Katrina Waddington and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of unity and hope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The author shares her experiences from her travels to New Orleans following the Category 5 hurricane.
Download or read book Displaced written by Lynn Weber and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina’s landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. Katrina survivors eventually scattered across all fifty states, and tens of thousands still remain displaced. Some are desperate to return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Others have chosen to make their homes elsewhere. Still others found a way to return home but were unable to stay due to the limited availability of social services, educational opportunities, health care options, and affordable housing. The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced. Drawing on research in thirteen communities in seven states across the country, the contributors describe the struggles that evacuees have faced in securing life-sustaining resources and rebuilding their lives. They also recount the impact that the displaced have had on communities that initially welcomed them and then later experienced “Katrina fatigue” as the ongoing needs of evacuees strained local resources. Displaced reveals that Katrina took a particularly heavy toll on households headed by low-income African American women who lost the support provided by local networks of family and friends. It also shows the resilience and resourcefulness of Katrina evacuees who have built new networks and partnered with community organizations and religious institutions to create new lives in the diaspora.
Download or read book Katrina written by Susan M. Moyer and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 7 a.m. on August 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast between Grand Isle and the mouth of the Mississippi River as a strong Category 4 hurricane. The devastation she would bring to the Gulf Coast was widespread and unimaginable. Though warnings had been issued for days and evacuations initiated, thousands stood in the path of one of the strongest storms in the history of America. Left with no power, no drinking water, dwindling food supplies, and steadily rising waters from major levee breaches, survivors also faced life-threatening looting and widespread fires. Efforts to limit the flooding were initially unsuccessful and refugees from the hurricane fought for their very survival on the streets of New Orleans and throughout Louisiana and Mississippi. While tragedy and desperation brought out the worst in some, it also inspired courage and hope in others, giving them the will to triumph against incalculable odds.
Book Synopsis A Compilation of Hurricane Katrina Stories by : Lucy Baker Wheelden
Download or read book A Compilation of Hurricane Katrina Stories written by Lucy Baker Wheelden and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a collection of short stories, a poem and Internet exchanges describing individual views of the history-making storm, Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. I chose the title because these were the stories I particularly would like for people to hear. The book deals with stories of real people, and what they did to survive. Some are short and cute, some are long and tense. Each one deals with something which these folks would never have experienced if not for the monster storm. The cover of my book is a picture which circulated on the internet. It is Highway 603 S(exit 13) as seen from the I-10 overpass. The Exxon Station is up and running again, and still the Greyhound Bus stop. All you can see of it is the frame of the sign and the roofs of the service station, restaurant and two-story hotel. The Gulf Coast faces many dragons, such as insurance hikes, FEMA, county and city building codes and post traumatic depression (also called survivor's guilt). With help and perseverance we can overcome these hurdles and go forward with the reconstruction of our homes, businesses, public facilities and our lives. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you read the book.
Book Synopsis Narrating the Storm by : Kristen Barber
Download or read book Narrating the Storm written by Kristen Barber and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those interested in learning more about the personal impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Narrating the Storm serves as an essential read. This important and timeless volume is a compilation of sixteen narratives that address the experiences of Gulf Coast residents, faculty, and graduate students who were caught up in the largest (not so) natural disaster in United States history. Each contributor deploys storytelling sociology as a methodological approach in order to illustrate how “personal” experiences with disaster are not so personal, but rather reflect and are informed by larger social phenomena related to issues including race, class, gender, age, bureaucracy, risk, collective memory, the blasé, and more. The narratives in this volume exemplify how inequality and injustice are unveiled, exacerbated, and created by the occurrence of disaster; and reveal the sociological in everyday and not-so-everyday experiences.
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina written by Barb Palser and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the events leading to and following the arrival of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans in 2005. Includes source notes and timeline.
Book Synopsis Letters from Katrina by : Mark E. Hoog
Download or read book Letters from Katrina written by Mark E. Hoog and published by Growing Fields. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents photographs of and drawings, letters, and quotations from Mississippi children who lived through Hurricane Katrina as well as pictures of and letters from students in Colorado and California who became pen pals with them.
Book Synopsis Surviving Hurricane Katrina by : Kira Freed
Download or read book Surviving Hurricane Katrina written by Kira Freed and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating book offers a close and exciting account of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, recounting what it was like to live through and survive this disaster. Readers will gain a unique perspective of the enormity of the tragedy and a greater appreciation of those who experienced it and survived its aftermath. With stunning images and gripping text, this book offers readers a new perspective of this tragedy, and readers will gain a greater appreciation for the power of mother nature.
Book Synopsis Katrina's Justice by : K. R. Fischer
Download or read book Katrina's Justice written by K. R. Fischer and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about a family that lives in a rural community in the Midwest that is learning to cope with the many issues of raising children in the twentieth century and after the terrible incident of September 11, 2001. what it takes to have hope to achieve life along with dealing with nature's fury after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The mother Katrina battles everyday life with raising three children in a rural community as her life unfolds with one of her children being diagnosed with AD, ADHD and anger psychosis at a young age. As the children grow up to be teenagers the family learns about the real judicial system first hand as the oldest is arrested and taken away from the family. Katrina learns to cope as a parent, mother and wife as the judicial system tears her apart on top of dealing with emotional and medical conditions on a daily basis. The family learns that justice is in the eyes of the holder and life needs to continue with the notion of hope is just at the end of every rainbow. The story continues as Katrina and Darrien try to mend their marriage and accept their fate as parents'. Katrina watches her family more on as the children reach their young adult ages, continues to go back to school and see why life itself is to be treasured. As she watches Hurricane Katrina destroy the gulf coast in 2005 and a great aunt and uncle loose all their early belongings. Katrina soon realizes that if people including herself have hope then things will get brighter at the end of that long tunnel.
Download or read book Katrina Blues written by and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our story, Katrina Blues begins around the time when Hurricane Katrina plunged the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast into pure agony. Katrina Blues is the story of a storm and its aftermath that became the worst natural disaster in a century. Our story centers on Rose Parker and her family, her husband, two young boys and a baby girl. They watched on television day after day of images depicting the harsh existence, showing exhausted families and children stepping around corpse while they begged. With total chaos and no sign of law and order, the Parker family made their decision to leave the area. The city had become a watery nightmare. It was a rainy night when they left, while driving down a wet and slippery highway, suddenly there's a lighting flash, a tree falls onto the pavement and a car out of control plunges into a rising river stream and is suddenly caught up in a strong current which carries the car further downstream. The Parker family in their attempt to escape the effects of the hurricane now find themselves a victim, pull into a vortex of misery that would shatter their dreams and tear their lives apart. Katrina Blues is a story that will take you beyond the comprehensible; it will defy your imagination and expose the unthinkable. Katrina Blues is about affairs of the heart, an exciting thrilling mixture of love, family values, romance, heartbreak, humor, suspense, drama and tragedy. Katrina Blues is a thriller that will sweep you away and take you on an adventure unlike any you've ever experience without leaving the comfort of your own home.
Download or read book Katrina written by Sally Pfister and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting, firsthand accounts and photographs from the aftermath of the hurricane
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina and the Lessons of Disaster Relief by : Michael Powelson
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina and the Lessons of Disaster Relief written by Michael Powelson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, exposed the failings and incompetence of local, state, and federal officials, as well as the private sector and a host of other public and private agencies. This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning and undisguised greed insured that a category 3 hurricane would result in widespread destruction of both lives and property. It adopts a multifaceted approach to Hurricane Katrina, and includes studies from the fields of oral history, environmental science, physics, political science, sociology, and history. Part One provides first-hand accounts from people that lived through the hurricane and its aftermath. Part Two looks at how various entities responded, or failed to respond, to the disaster. Included in this section are articles on public health, tourism, environmental science, and the role of the Army Corp of Engineers. Part Three incorporates data from the aftermath of Katrina to suggest future responses to hurricanes and other natural/human made disasters. Finally, Harry Shearer, actor, radio host of Le Show, and director of The Big Uneasy, a documentary on Katrina and its aftermath, contributes an article on the various elements that went into the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina.
Book Synopsis The Great Deluge by : Douglas Brinkley
Download or read book The Great Deluge written by Douglas Brinkley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina.
Book Synopsis Ten Years After Katrina by : Mary Ruth Marotte
Download or read book Ten Years After Katrina written by Mary Ruth Marotte and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it.
Book Synopsis Blown Together by : Sebastian Myladiyil
Download or read book Blown Together written by Sebastian Myladiyil and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating storms to hit the US. Most of the attention is focused on the destruction in New Orleans, but the Mississippi Gulf Coast experienced untold damage as well. Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Mississippi, were ground zero for Katrina's landfall. But for all its fury, Katrina brought miracles along with its trials. Blown Together is a collection of over twenty-five true accounts of the impact of this storm on families and communities as well as the beautiful unity and cooperation it brought from volunteers near and far. "The cover of Blown Together: The Trials and Miracles of Katrina says it all-many came together, lending a hand to be a blessing to those in need. Fr. Sebastian has eloquently woven the tragic events of Katrina with the beauty of neighbors and strangers coming together. It helps us realize that we can find good even in our darkest hour." -Robin Roberts, co-anchor, Good Morning America, proud Mississippian
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast by : Mara Miller
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast written by Mara Miller and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of one of the worst disasters in American history.
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina by : Debra A. Miller
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina written by Debra A. Miller and published by Lucent Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce readers to one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. This book offers an in-depth overview of Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, the Gulf Coast of the United States was pummeled by one of the biggest hurricanes ever to hit the country. Hurricane Katrina struck close to New Orleans, damaging its flood barriers and almost destroying the entire city. This selection tells the dramatic story of this monster storm. Stunning photographs, relevant illustrations, and provocative editorial cartoons lend visual appeal and hold interest.
